If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the Forum Rules by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Re: Backtrack 5 - fancontrol problem in my laptop nx6115 HP

Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69

Re: Backtrack 5 - fancontrol problem in my laptop nx6115 HP

Looking there, I found it.. that is the same laptop as me and same problem, but the solution wasnt found yet

Hi folks.
I have an issue concerning temperature control in a HP NX6115 laptop.
It is a Turion 64 ML-32.
The fan is controlled using a sensor that is not the core temperature sensor. The core sensor communicates with the OS using driver max1617-i2c-0-4c, wich was detected using lm-sensors.
If I run sensors I got:
Code:

There is only 1 cooler in the system and it is controlled using 4 steps (Cooling 1-4).
For temp1 > 58°C, cooling 1 turns on. For temp1 > 65, cooling 2 turns on and so them go. But when temp1 ~ 65°C, CPU Temp ~ 77°C and I got only the second fan stage turned on.
I would like to know if is there a way to set acpi to use the right sensor to control fan speed, so my system runs cooler. I don't care about noise or power consumption (this is the next step).
I'm new to Linux and maybe this question is stupid, but I could not find anything like this in the forum.
Thanks in advance.

It looks like temp1 is always 12°C below CPU Temp. Is there a way to change that?
When CPU Temp goes above 80°C, the system freezes.